Upcoming Eclipse Conference update

Eclipse has announce an update on the upcoming EclipseCon 2008 which will be held on March. Some of the updates include AMD becoming a Gold sponsor and Research in Motion sponsoring a BlackBerry® developer day during the conference.

OTTAWA – January 22, 2008 – The Eclipse Foundation today announced the support of eleven industry-leading companies as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2008, the annual conference of the Eclipse community.

The Gold Sponsors — Actuate, AMD, BEA, Cloudsmith, IBM, Oracle, Replay Solutions, Research In Motion (RIM), Skyway Software, SOPERA and Wind River — will join an impressive list of keynote speakers and presenters for the fifth annual conference to be held March 17-20, 2008, in Santa Clara, CA.

“We are delighted to have these eleven companies express their support of EclipseCon, an event that’s essential to the Eclipse community’s collaborative environment,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “The support of these premier sponsors helps make EclipseCon an extraordinary event year after year”.

In addition to the Gold sponsors, three other premier sponsors have been announced:

• AMD has agreed to be the hardware sponsor of the conference. AMD will contribute several Quad-Core AMD Opteronâ„¢ processors to power the Eclipse Foundation web infrastructure, including the EclipseCon download server.
• Research In Motion has agreed to sponsor a BlackBerry® Developer Day during the conference. Conference attendees will be able to attend in-depth technical session about the BlackBerry development platform.
• IBM is sponsoring a Developer Day during EclipseCon. Attendees will be able to attend technical sessions about IBM’s Eclipse-based Jazz team platform and products such as Rational Team Concert Express.

EclipseCon 2008 will feature over 350 tutorials and presentations covering all aspects of Eclipse technology. For additional information about the program, please visit www.eclipsecon.org.

Registration Information

Registration for EclipseCon 2008 is now open. More information about the conference, including registration, travel and hotel details, can be found at www.eclipsecon.org.